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On 9/3/2024 10:48 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 9/3/2024 2:02 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> BTW, about portability, the Free Pascal people say this on their website:
>>
>> |Free Pascal is a mature, versatile, open source Pascal compiler. It
>> |can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (16 and 32 bit),
>> |AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, SPARC64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS,
>> |Motorola 68k, AVR, and the JVM. Supported operating systems include
>> |Windows (16/32/64 bit, CE, and native NT), Linux, Mac OS
>> |X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, FreeBSD and other BSD flavors, DOS (16
>> |bit, or 32 bit DPMI), OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii,
>> |AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and various embedded platforms.
>> |Additionally, support for RISC-V (32/64), Xtensa, and Z80
>> |architectures, and for the LLVM compiler infrastructure is available
>> |in the development version. Additionally, the Free Pascal team
>> |maintains a transpiler for pascal to Javascript called pas2js.
>>
>> No VMS however.
> 
> Seems as if thoswe people aren't as "open" as they think they are.  If 
> the world is mainly WEENDOZE and Unix and derivatives perhaps.

They cover like 95% of the server market, 99% of the desktop
market and 99% of the mobile device market for development and
like 3 times 99% for runtime (z/OS, i and VMS all has JVM available).

Not so bad.

But anyone finding that some important platform is missing are free
to port to that platform.

Arne